Focus on Prices and Spending, Consumer Expenditure, Volume 2, Number 16

Focus on Prices and Spending | Consumer Expenditure | Volume 2, Number 16

Chart 1. Shares of expenditures for selected categories, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan, 2009
Country     Food         Housing    Transportation Health care Clothing

United States

 14.6 26.3 17.5 7.2 4.0

Canada

 15.3 21.4 20.6 4.2 6.0

United Kingdom

 19.9 24.1 15.2 1.4 5.5

Japan

 21.8 21.6 9.8 4.3 4.2

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